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Two Ways or Puffing It.
The Sullnn awoke with a stifled scrcnm;
His nerves woro shocked by a fearful dream:
An omen of terrible import nnd doubt
Ilia teeth in ouo moment all full out.
His winemrn nnietnblod at break ol day,
And stood by tlio tlirono in solemn array.
And when tlio torriblo drenm was told,
Encb foil a shudder, hi blood ran cold,
And all stood silent, in loar and dred,
And wondering what was best to be said.
At length an old soothsayer, wrinkled and
gray,
Criod, "Pardon, my lord, what I have to say;
" 'Tis an omen ot sorrow sont from on high:
Thou shall see nil thy kindrod die."
Wroth was theSultnn; he guatthed his teeth,
And his very word seem to kiss and seethe,
As ho ordered tlio wiscman bound with chains,
And gave him n hundred stripes for hit pains.
Tlio wisomen shook as the Sultan's eye
Swept round to sco who next would try;
Itut one ot them, stepping bolore the' throno,
Kxclnimcd, in a loud and joyous tone:
" Kxult, oh head of a happy state!
Rejoice, h heir ol a glorious futo!
" For llii 3 is the luvor thou shalt win,
Oh bultun to outlive all thy kin!"
rieosed was the Sultan, and called a slavo,
And a hundrod crowns to the wiseinan gave.
Hut the courtiers they nod, with grave, sly
winks,
id oacli one whispers what each one thinks.
" Well, can the Sultan reward and blame:
Didn't both ol tlio wisumon toretell the same?"
Quoth 'ho crafty old Vizier, shaking his head,
" So much may depend on the way a thing's
sail!"
Harpti 's Young People,
ADELINA.
It wa3 ft cold, clear morning that I
disconsolately wended my way to school
wishing that holidays cuine oitcncr una
staid Ionizer, and regretting that out of
the fifty-two there was only ne week of
uninterrupted pleasure.
The old red echool house stood at the
junction of three ronds, and, as I raised
the little bill just before reaching it, 1
saw. coming from the opposite direction.
a" little black-clad figure that looked like
a moving blot on the unhroken white
ness of the snow covered landscape.
I never could tell what actuated me to
linger on her movements as 1 did, or
whv she so strongly attracted me. but
from the livst I think I must have loved
the child, evo before I was old enough
to rightly understand the meaning ol
the word.
Wo reached the worn old door-stone
together, and. being a boy not at all
afraid to speak to any one, much less a
timid little girl. 1 very coolly asked her
if tin was her first day at school.
" Yes; and I dread it so much."
It was the sweetest voice I had ever
heard, or have ever heard since. The
peculiar rising inflection on the lost
word was like the short, clear low notes
of a bird, and as purely natural. .
" Do you come every day P"
" Haven't missed a day this winter,
"O. I'm so glad 1"
" Whv are vou so glad?"
' Because you are a good boy. Won't
you plo-'se tell me your name?"
" Edward Durand."
" 1 like the some," she said, sweetly,
and boy as I was. I wondered how any
mortal ever came by such an angel
Mnile. All this time she had been try-
ire to untie the round worsted stri
oi' her hood, but had only succeeded in
drawing them into a harder knot.
" Won't you please untie it for me,
Eddie?"
She held up her little cold thin, and
without a moment's hesitation I bent
down and did as she requested. It was
Buch a tender, confiding little face who
could help loving it? 1 patted encour
agingly the rosy red cheek turned to
ward me in gentlo truthfulness, and
bade her not to be afraid, for she had a3
good a right to come to school as any
one.
"Halloo! where did that little blacb
' bird come from?" cried kind-hearted
lien Phillips, as we entered. "Come
along, little girl, and get vvarm, for you
look half frozen."
A general tittering and nudging fol
lowed Ben's energetic seating of the new
scho)r, and one saucy minx, not under
standing its significance, asked, pertly :
" What are you looking so like a croW
for P I hate a black dress !"
"Hush!" reproved iin older girl, who
overheard the remark. "Hush, Sue;
don't you see she is in mourning P"
The voice that had so charmed me in
the entry answered the question in a
strangely quiet way.
" My father is dead.''
A hush as of death fell upon the noisy
roup gathered around the old cracked
stove. j. he unwonted swenoc was tinmen
by the entrance of the teacher, who iai
mediately rapped us to order, after
which he bristly called up the new
scholar.
" What is your name?"
" Adelina."
Mr. Pike looked wise.
"Adelina Lagrange, I suppose; and
you are the daughter of the lady who
lias recently taken the Baldwin cot
tage?" "Yes. sir."
" Well, you may take this scat," point
ing to a bench not far from where I wtis
sitting; and without further question
ing Adelina had passed through the tid
ing ordeal of a " first day" and was duly
counted one of us.
Her mother, it was rumored, was a
lady of refinement and culture, but very
proud and reserved in her demeanor for
a person who was obliged to teach music
for a living. Mrs. Lagrange, at any
rale, was tyoung, handsome, and re
cently widowed at least the length and
newness of her veil indicated to observing
feminine eyes that the bereavement was
recent, ana that is all the gossips knew
about her.
Tho summer term brought Adelina
again to the old red school-house, but
so changed outwardly that we hardly
knew her from the somber " black bird "
of the previous winter. She fluttered
in one morning dressed in white, with
sash and shoulder-knots of cherry rib
bons the loveliest creature I ever saw.
At noon she came to me, and said, very
gravely :
"Alter to-day i am not coming any
more."
"WhyP"
"I am going to the city to live; but
you were kind to me the first day I
came, and I tell you for that reason,
and becauso you didn t mind untying
my h:od for me."
I felt Iter going so keenly that I could
not study, try as I would, and in conse
quence my grammar lesson was a de
cided failure. I wont home from school
her way that day, taking care that the
other scholars should not suspect my
motives. When I came in sight of her
she was standing motionless by the
roadside, attentively watching a yellow-
jacket buzzing lor sweets in the downy
heart of a white Canada thistle.
Years after, when miles and miles
away from that spot, I could shut my
eyes ot a hazy uctober atternoon, with
a live oclock sun flipping towaro the
tree tops, and see a little girl, lovely as
the blush of the sunset, gazing pensively
at a bee upon a common roadside
flower.
Did it sting you?"l asked, assum
ing a very sympathetic air.
"No; bees never sting me, ana rve
watched them dance on the thistle
heads ail summer."
" I did not know that you loved them.
Most girls are afraid of bees."
" Yes ; but I am not."
She turned from the rank patch of
thistles, and slowly resumed her walk
homeward. When we came to the lane
where our paths separated, sht put up
her little arms to bo taken and kissed,
before leaving me, ashe said, " to come
Bo good to yourself, Eddie ; and next
winter, if any little lonely Adelinas
come cold and frightened to the old red
school-house yonder, be kind to theni
as you were to me."
Something choked in my throat, ana
I could not say a word ; but I kissed her
more than once: ana niter sue naa
slipped from my arms and was twenty
rods away, I sat down and cried like a
baby, because 1 was never to see Auenna
again.
It was not long before the rumor was
rife in the neighborhood that Mrs. La
grange hadjnarried a middle-aged city
millionaire, ana mat tne young wiuow
ind her child had found a new protec
tor in place of the one death had taken
from them.
Years flitted by I was twenty-four;
I had fought through the war entered
the army a private and came out of it a
captain, shattered in health and utterly
depleted in pocket, to find myself at
home again, ill and altogether distrust
ful of fortune s smile.
In mv freouent walks to the village
po Uoflice I often passed by the old red
scboolhouse. and never without a sigh
of regret for the many happy, care-free
tlays pcnt witinn its Dauereu waus.
Among the letters handed to me one
morning was one postmarked New
York, rfhich informed me of the agree
able fact that, through the instrumental
ity of a friend of mine, whom he was
anxious to serve, the undersigned, Mr.
Maxwell, had been induced to extend
to me a commercial opening at the lib
eral salary of two thousand ft year, to
he increased if merited. There was for
tune for me in the offer, and I accepted
it with alacrity.
Mr. Maxwell, a rich New York mer
chant, from the first took a lively inter
est in my advancement. The unknown
friend I could not account for in any
other wav than by supposing it to be
some soldk-r comrade whom I had be
friended in the past.
Within a month I was fairly estab
lished at mv new post of duty, and suc
ceeded in pleasing Mr. Maxwell so well
UiAt at the beginning of mv second year
he sent me to Europe in the interest of
the house. When I returned, i was
given a weeks vacation, which I spent
among the breezy hills of my old country
home, passing the pleasant September
days in tramping through the woods and
fields and by-ways that were the chosen
haunts of mv boyhood.
I was iust turning the curve in the
road where the Canada thistles grew
and !so lost in my walking reverie, that
I
was almost opposite a lady standing in
their midst before I was aware of her
presence.
" I am glad you still love the old
scenes, Mr. Durand," she said, without
expressing the least surprise.
I was astonished. Hero was a lady
who, to the best of my knowledge, I had
never seen ueiore, aunressing me as
familiarly as if we had known each
odier all our lives.
" Names are treacherous things, and
if I were' ever so fortuuate as to have
known yours, I am guilty of having for
gotten it," I replied.
- Men forget easily, I am told ; but I
had hoped to find you an exception to
the rule."
A very awkward silence on my part
ensued. She took pity on my evident
embarrassment, and continued :
" Has your battle with the world en
tirely driven from your recollection all
the old school faces?"
Her voice dropped to its old sweet,
clear, winning cadence, thrilling my
whole being with delight.
"Adelina!"
I caught her hand, and, before I knew
what I was doing, had carried it to my
hps and kissed it.
"Excuse me," I stammered; "but I
avu so glad to see vou. and vou seem
just the same little girl 1 kissed here
years ago not a bit older-nly Ade
lina, always lovely and always loved."
Then I told her all about myself, how
prosperous I was, and the strange man
ner in which I had been brought to the
notice of my kind employer. When I
had finished, she merely said, in her
simple manner:
"I know it."
" You appear to know everything.
Do you know Mr. Maxwell P"
"He is my father."
"Adelina!"
I staggered back, in my soul ashamed
that I should owe every good in life
everything to a, woman who owed me
nothing but the poor favor of once hav
ing untied for her a wretched biack and
white worsted hood. I turned away,
cut to the heart, but she put out ft de
taining hand.
Don't m o. Mr. Durand that is, don't
go feeling hurtj for it would make me
very unhappy if you were, to go away
angry with me."
" Unhappy ! What am I. that a pain
tome should render you unhappy P" I
answered, bitterly.
" I knew of no other way to express
my gratitude."
"Gratitude for whatP"
The. question was rudely abrupt, but
she took no notice of my ungracious
speech.
" Gratitude for the kindness given me
long ago, and which I have missed ever
since the day we parted here by the
roadside."
" Are you conscious of what it is you
are saying, Adelinar"
"Perfectly."
"How am 1 to understand your
words?"
" That I leave to your good ' judg
ment, she smiled." lowering her eyes.
She had an instant illustration of my
" good ludgment" in the way I impris
oned her two little hands in both of
mine, and kissed tht sweet mouth for its
shyly-whispered promise.
1 walked home with Adelina on, so
happy! and when I asked her hand of
Mr. Maxwell, he said :
"I have anticipated your request by
keeping you under my eye for more than
two vears. Adelina is the best and
truest girl in the world, but 1 believe
vou to be as worthy of her as any man
lvmg. and give her to you conhdent
that you know how to prize the treasure
vou have won."
And so. not long tnereatter, l married
Adelina. the love of my boyhood, and
thecrowning glory of my later years.
The African Paris.
In ancient times Egypt was the center
of art and science. It contained the
finest library in the world. France.
Germany and Italy are now visited by
those who wish to perfect themselves in
science and art. but a time was when
Egypt was visited by the young men of
Greece and Uome to perlect themselves
in the learning and arts of the age, as
students now seek trance and Germany
For a long t ime Egypt has lain in almost
a state of barbarism. The late viceroy
has, however, by his intelligence, genius
ana energy, so Biimuiaiea progress
throughout his dominions that Egypt
bids fair to once more take her rank
among the most civilized portions of the
world. Cairo may in time become a
rival to Paris. In Cairo gas pipes have
been laid down in the principal streets,
and it is stated on reliable authority
that these streets are better lighted than
those of many European capitals. The
principal thoroughfares are supplied
with water mains, and good water is (lis
tributed throughout the city. New
streets have been opened and narrow
ones widened : a beautiful artificial lake
has been formed and surrounded with
iron railings in a fashionable part of the
city which was formerly traversed by an
offensive ditch, and which was a depos
itory of garbage and rubbish. About
the lake and within the railing have
been placed graveled walks, flower beds.
stands for musicians, canopies for theat
rical representations and other amuse
ments. Uutside ot this inciosure hand'
some houses are erected, wan nrcaaes
and shops in the basements, alter the
modern fashion. Carriage drives have
been constructed and projected. The
German inhabitants have been allowed
to build a Protestant church, and a piece
of land has been granted to the English
for the same purpose. There is an opera
house for Italian opera, a theater for
French plays and a hippodrome for
equestrian and acrobatic displays. A
carriage road has been constructed to
the pyramids and another to Heliopolis
These roads are shaded by acacia and
sycamore trees. A well conducted
printing house has been established at
Boulac for the publication of books in
the Arabic language, and it is stated
that many valuable publications have
been already issued. In the vicinity of
this printing house has been erected a
large paper mill, said to have cost about
$500,000 in American currency.
What Is Peat I
Immense stratum ot peat underlies
the city of Boston. Everybody ought
to know what peat is, but some don't
know. It is ft spongy mass of vegetable
matter, the out-growth ot swampy sous.
and is composed of matted roots, leaves
and stems of plants, the forms of which
are distinctly preserved, and sometimes
lost in the spongy substance produced
bv their composition. It originates in
places naturally moist, where an abund
ance of vegetation flourishes and decays,
and where the new growth above leaves
the lower portion dead and burned. In
time, encroaching upon some former
pond bed, it usurps the domain of the
water, and accumulates to a depth of
from twelve to forty feet. Workmen
came across the peat beds the other day
while making a sewer in Boston.
At a recent wedding the bridegroom,
being an ollieer, wore his side arms at
the nuptials. A little wide awake
pre titer of the bride was attracted
by the display of weapons, and as
he hod another sister, whose true
love was a carpenter, he boldly in
quired : "May, when Jenkins comes to
marrv Milly, will he wear his saw by
his side?"
Tickling induces luuirutcr, except tickling in
the throat, which causes coughing ut once
removed by Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup. 26 centa
a bottle.
A VISION OP DEATH.
Saved by a Worklngmsn'i
Presence of
Mind.
The infernal (yet very useful) com
pound is so swift and terrible in its
work, and coannihilatory in its eiiects
that many persons experience a sin eular
feeling if even in the presence of the
harmless-looking fluid. They know that
a slight concussion would send them
into eternity with the rapidity of the
lightning's flash, ;nd hardly a trace of
their bodies be found. Men who are
accustomed to nitre-glycerine are sup
posed to have none ot these leeangs, ana
nerve is a necessary requisite. Never
theless, the presence of appalhngdanger
sometimes frustrates tlie best of them,
as will be seen by the following inci
dent :
At a certain factory not ft hundred
miles from Bradford were gathered the
members of the firm and some work
men. The gentlemen were intently
watching the process of manufacturing
the explodent, when one of them incau
tiously dropped his cigar stub on the
floor, which was covered witn running
water bearing on the surface small par
cels of nitro-glycerine, The latter caught
lire and burned brilliantly with a sput
tering noise, lo say that the spetatois
were alarmed would be to put it very
mildlv. Tliev were simnlv naralvzed
with terror, and watched the spreading
of the fiery stream with the helpless
fascination with which a victim is said
to look in the glittering eyes of n rattle
snake. All around them were cans
filled with nitro-glvcenne. enough to
annihilate an army, and every man felt
as-tnougn uewastue vicumoi auiueuus
nightmaro which held him powerless.
Flight was impossible; their limbs re
fused to perform their office, and an
awful death seemed inevitable. The
apparently doomed men saw the little
lake or hre spread siowiy out surety on
the floor, and the flames hissed m
though in triumph at the certain death
mat seemea to await ineir victims.
None of the spectators will soon forget
this thrilling episode in their lives, and
money could not hire them to repeat
the experiment. When the fire had al
most reached a can filled with glycerine
one of the workmen roused from his leth
argy, and taking offhis coat spread it on
the . floor and extinguished the flames,
when of course all danger ceased. One
of the gentlemen preset t, when describ
ing his experience, said: " l never Knew
before what it Was to be sick from fear.
When I saw the infernal stuff burning,
and felt that every man of us would be
blown to atoms in hve seconds, every
muscle of my body seemed palsied. I
easoed for breath, mv head swam, and
I only lelt a deathly sensation oi nausenu
in mv stomach. All present turned nn
ashy paleness of the face. Then I vainly
wondered whether there would be any
pain in the deathstroke. The remem
brance of a nitro-elveerine horror, where
the still palpitating heart of one of its
victims was picked up a minute alter
the explosion, came to my mind and I
surmised whether my heartwould un
dergo that.strange experience after being
torn from ray body. 1 he thought ot my
family caused me the most poignant an
guish, and tears coursed down my
cheeks. Then several incidents of my
life, of which I cannot speak with prides
were vividly presented to my mind's eve
and induced vague ronections on the sun
iect of future punishment. Sometimes
in my dreams I have telt myselt in the
presence of inghttul peril, such as lying
in the path of an express train or totter
ing on the brink of a vast abyss, but was
utterly incapable of moving hand or foot
for my preservation. So it seemed in
this case. I could not lift a finger though
there was comparative safety in flight.
paralyzed with terror was Jiteiallymy
condition. Alter what seemed an eter
nity of waiting for my inevitable fate,
my attention was arrested by a move
ment on the part of one of the workmen,
who took off his coat hurriedly, lhen
he bent forward, and, with the utmost
deliberrtion, laid it on the pool
of fire, moving it gently along and
patting it with his hands until
every soark was extinguished. J. he
reaction from the terriWe suspense was
almost overpowering, and I felt weak as
a child, but on going out into the open
air my old time spirits came back very
rapidly. May i never have another sue
experience." Brarfjord (Pa.) Era.
The Latest Dodge In the Metropolis
At Hroadway and Duane street, in
New York, the but of a cigar my on the
sidewalk, and a thread of purple smoke
went ud from its ashes. A wcll-dressea
man, wearing a silk hat that showed
evidences of recent hard usage, was eye
ing the halt consumed cigar, and was
evidently making up his mind to re
cover it. lie had every appearance of
a drunken man. Keeping his eye on
the stub, he straightened himself up,
pulled his tall hat down over his
eyes, and stopoed to reach the" cigar,
smiling complacently as he extended his
hand toward the but. In the meantime
many persons had halted, and when the
wind caused tne cigar to ron away just
as lie was putting his fingers on it, the
knot ot observers laughed, lho man
again straightened up, and he frowned
indignantly on those who were around
him. He looked at the staff on the
tower of theW estern Unionjbuilding.and
up and down Broadway, as though in
doubt whether he would again recover
the cigar. Then he pulled his hat over
his eyes once more, and renewed his
effort. He fell on his knees, pitched
over on his face, arose to his knees
again and poised his hand over the
coveted butt. The knot of observers
had been increased tenfold, and bets
were offered that the cigar would again
elude him. Suddenly the interest of
the throng was turned in another direc
tion. A man shouted, " Stop thief!
I've lost my watch!" and a woman
cried out that her pocketbook wus miss
ing. About this time the man who
had been an object of so much interest,
wits also missing. " Go on, go on,"
said a policeman to the crowd ; " that's
the latest trick."
TIMELY TOPICS.
Wayne township, in Ohio; contains a
tract known as Big Woods, the inhabi
tants of which lead a somewhat un
civilized life. A party of masked men
from this locality lately whipped two
thieves severely nnd then posted the
following: " Resolved, that courts bo a
useless expense, and hereafter the coun
cil of safety is going to punish all
scoundrels like they deserve."
The hostile Utes of Colorado did
something almost unprecedented in In
dian warfare in surrendering the women
and children captured at the Meeker
agency safe ana unharmed into the
hands of the United States authorities,
after having held them captives for
nearly three weeks, and a Buffalo paper
says that this fact does something to
mitigate the barbarity of their revolt,
and if the government can induce the
Ute chiefs to surrender the Indians
euilty of the brutal murder of agent
Meeker and his male assistants it wi.l
be a triumph for the peace policy not
easily over estimated.
Five and a half millions of dollars are
soent every year by the Russian gov
ernment upon the military schools.
There are twenty sergeants' schools,
twenty-two military gymnasiums, two
military teachers' seminaries, seven offi
cers' schools, the institute of the im-.
pcrial pages, the military topographical
school, the naval school, the naval
academy, the naval artillery, school, the
naval engineer schooi, the military gen
eral academy, the military artillery
academy, the military engineer academy,
four military veterinary schools, the
military medical academy, the military
law school and academy; in short.
there is only wanting a military theolo
gical academy.
Moiada. the new El Dorado, which is
attracting thousands of Americans to
Mexico, includes parts of the States of
Chihuahua, Coahuila and Durango.
The district has long been known as rich
in gold and silver, but the utter lawless
ness which lormerly prevailed, and the
frequent revolutions and forced, loans,
deterred capitalists and prospectors from
developing it. Things appear to have
changed for the better; life and prop
erty are reported comparatively safe
under the strict rule ot President Diaz
Th stories told of the richness of the
mines seem almost tabulous. It would
be well, however, for those who thirst to
become millionaires suddenly not to
rush too hastily into that foreign and al
most unknown region.
A murder that for coolness and delib
eration is not often surpassed is reported
from Breitenbach. Germany. A married
couple having quarreled, the wife left
the house, and lor several days stayed
awav. sleeping at night in barns or
wherever she found it convenient. Mean
while the husband remained calmly at
home. This indillerence exasperated
the wife to a pitch of diabolical hatred.
and about eleven o'clock ono night she
returned to the house, and while her
husband lay asleep in an adjoining
room, went into the kitchen, started ii
fire, filled the kettle witli water and put
it on the stove, waited patiently until
it steamed, nnd then, taking it to her
husband's bedside, poured the contents
over him, scalding him so badly that he
lived only a few hours.
Speaking of mysterious disappearances
in London, the correspondent of a pro
vincial paper says : " At the time of the
discovery of the remains (and before
their identiheation as those ol Miss
Hacker) in Euston square, Chief Su
perintendent Williamson of Scotland
Yard received upward of one thousand
photographs of females who were miss
ing from various parts of the country,
the bulk of whom had been traced to
liondon, where the clue was lost. The
theory entertained by the oilicer3 is that,
in many instances, after the victim has
been marked down, advantage is Liken
of the lax state of the present lunacy
laws, a certificate of lunacy, signed by
two unscrupulous practitioners, is ob
tained, and the unfortunate creature is
conveyed to ono of the so-called private
asylums (scores ot which exist unsus
pected in our large tewns), and detained
where help or discovery is next to im
possible." The Scorpion's Suicidal Impulse.
Do animals ever commit suicide? A
dog is said to have done so by drowning,
perhaps on no stronger evidence than
that which authenticated Capt. Marryat's
anecdotes. 1 oubts have been thrown on
the sanity of the cat which hanged her
self iu the fork between two branches.
The suicidal character of the scorpion,
however, is reasserted by a correspon
dent of Nature. We havo all heard how
the scorpion, if surrounded by a circle of
fire, runs its sting into its own head, and
so expires. Probably most of us have
classed this scorpion with Benvenuto
Cellini's celebrated salamander, or with
the barnacles who give birth to wild
geese. Mr. Allen Thompson, however,
has a friend who has often seen scor
pions sting themselves to death at Lucca.
When the insect is caught, lie is put in a
glass tumbler till dark. A light is then
exhibited, whereon the scorpion first
loses his head with excitement, and then
" brings his recurved sting down upon
it, and pierces it forcibly." In a moment
bis sorrows are over and " his excite
ment amounting to despair" ceases to
vox him. It is odd that this suicidal
mania should be hereditary in scorpions,
because, of course, the dead ones cannot
have reported to the survivors that the
experiment is successful, while suicide is
fur frnni'uninnlvinu' with Darwinian con
ditions, and favoring thJ persistence of
the species.
An article is going the rounds treating
on the best methods of putting away
potatoes. A family of about eight, in
cluding three boys and throe girls, can
put away potatoes alniut as successfully
as is necessary. Jiomc tkntiiut.
An Argument.
As, one by one, along life's flinty way,
The hopes ot youth lade in the heat ami die,
And ot our prime the aspirations high
Hemoreelos'S circumstances crush nnd Blny,
Then, "Courage," to our fainting hearts we
say,
" Beyond this life the sunny uplands lie
Where these Bhall nil be ours, again to try.
The blight ascent toward the perfect day."
Oh, land of the hereafter! can it be,
When to thy sacred keeping we commit
All our best treasures so confidingly,
Our dead, our hopes, our aspirations lit
With quenchless fire, that immort-ility
And thy fair plains are all a myth, a client ?
H. E. Starreit, in (Sood Company.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A leader of fashion the letter F.
It is said that you can keep a pumpkin
for ten years by varnishing it several
times over.
Since Napoleon the Great became
Emperor of France, 3,319 titles of hered
itary nobility have been .conferred on
Frenchmen.
The individual who wrole, " Oh, sol
itude, where are thy charms P" was a
business man who didn't advertise.
Saturday Xight.
If Kaiser William isn't careful, his
son. the crown prince, will soon be as
old as he is, the boy having reached his
forty-ninth year.
" Where is the West?" asks the Pres
byterian. Oh, it's in the clothes closet,
Now, will you tell us where are the
trousers ?IIaivkeye.
When a man so far forgets himself as
to go a fishing on Sunday, we lose all
respect tor him unless he divides.
Cedar Rapids Republican.
Scarce do we bid adieu to ills
That mark the rein ot summer,
Then premonitions bid us grieve
The stove man and the plumber.
Lowell eft ;i.
The Boston Journal says that Walter
Hastings, recently . deceased, left the
bulk of his fortune, after the death of
his wife, to Havard college. Jt is esti
mated at $500,000, the largest donation
ever made to the college.
A rather eccentric man always says,
when he sees a farmer going to town
with ft load of produce with a woman
sitting on top of it: " That load's got a
mortgage on it." Meaning the woman
will trade it out. McGregor News.
Simon Burlingame has taken a fifth
wife to his home at Ripon, WIS. Three
of her predecessors died at yearly inter
vals and were buried side by side, with
tombstones to match. The fourth fled,
affrighted by the first attack of illness,
and would not return, thus giving her
husband legal ground for divorce. The
fifth is as yet undismayed.
ON THE TRAIN.
From the car window he looked to see
The landsoapo rushing by;
It came along, he picked it upfc
He caught it with his eve.
Wrathtully jerking in his hoad,
To dig tor the stinging cindoi-
We dare not print the words he said,
When his hat flew out the winder!
Ilawkeyc.
Some of our exchanges are boasting
about pumpkins. We think they will
"cheese their racket" wnen we tea
them of a pumpkin, raised in this
county, which measured seven feet in
circumferenco, and weighs 157 pounds.
On the same vine grew sixty-eight
pumpkins nearly as largo as the. one de
scribed. The vine measured 105 feet in
lgth, and its branches covered nearly
an acre of ground. Fulton (Ky.) Times.
Horse cars in Philadelphia are now
comfortably warmed. Each car is pro
vided with two small portable furnaces,
arranged on either side bene ilh the body
of the ear and between the two wheels.
By means of flues the heat is directed
beneath the cane-covered seats, from
which it becomes diffused throughout
the car. The smoke is couducted to
the front platform, and thence, by means
of pipes, to the roof of the car. The
consumption of luel is small, a"shovel of
coal, and a few sticks of wood sufficing
for the. entire trip.
How a Uirl Killed a Deer.
A letter from Shohola, Pa., says:
Four or five miles back of this place, in
an old log cabin, lives Thomas 1 lender-
shot. He has a pretty daughter about
eighteen years of age. Clara 1 lender
shot can row a boat, shoot a gun or trap
a bear as well as any man in the coun
ty. A few days ago she started across
the lake the Great Walker pond to
visit a friend. She used a light boat be
longing to her father, and carried, as
was her custom, a small ritle slung across
her shoulder by a leather strap. When
nearly in the center of tho lake she dis
covered a l objet in the water, a short
distance off, and upon approaching
nearer found that it was ft large live
pronged buck, which had been driven
in by dogs. She immediately unslung
her gun and, after taking aim, tired.
The ball passed through the deer's neck,
making a painful wound. The animal
enraged, struck at the boat with its
front foot, completely shattering one
side of tho fragile bark, which sunk,
leaving Miss Hendershot in the water
with tho infuriated buck. She was
plucky and could swim well, and as the
deer came toward her she caught it by
the horns and plunged her hunting-
knife into its neck, killing it instantly.
She then called for help, and as none
arrived she swam to the shore, about a
quarter of a mile, and hurried home.
She put on dry clothes, and procurnng
another boat rowed out to where the
dead buck was floating and towed it
ashore. When dressed the animal
weighed 2B0 pounds. This is the seventh
deer Miss Hendershot has killed and she
feels quite proud of her hist adventure,,
which is tho most thrilling she ever
had. A gentleman at this place intends
having the deer's head stuffed, and
Miss Hendershot will keep it as me
mento of her struggle for life in the
water.